Story time: Was once at a military installation in the middle of an experiment. At a critical moment, several security guards barge in and ask to see some paper

Story time: Was once at a military installation in the middle of an experiment. At a critical moment, several security guards barge in and ask to see some paperwork. They had been tipped off to the fact that some of our shipping and receiving and inventory paperwork was out of date (they were absolutely correct, my bad). I explained that we were in the middle of a very time critical experiment and that afterward we would be happy to subject ourselves to the necessary sanctions; meanwhile could you (guard #1) tell me when the green trace on that o’scope starts wiggling because that’s when you (guard #2) should see a flare across the sky around that hill. This eventually turned out to be a successful experiment and the security guards had the time of their lives as impromptu laboratory assistants.